# What do you always spill? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528 "2004-06-21T23:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/1 "2004-06-21T23:31:09Z")
I’m an absolute klutz when it comes to salsa. I spilled it on my nightgowns twice in the past week, and that’s only the most recent time. I’m not great with salad dressing, either. Got it on my top today. I often spill a few drops of coffee on the floor but not usually on my clothes. And how about you? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/2 "2004-06-22T01:14:54Z")
Cottage cheese, for some reason. Well, I store it upside down like my mother did, so when I open it it often has to, er, “burp” before it settles at the bottom of the container. While getting the lid off I often get cottage cheese everywhere. It’s embarassing, as it’s not one of those things people really spill. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/3 "2004-06-22T01:47:23Z")
Would you believe that a friend of my mom’s just told us today about the storing-it-upside-down trick? We’d never heard of it before. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/4 "2004-06-22T01:50:18Z")
The water as I drain pasta. It always ends up on the floor. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/5 "2004-06-22T01:52:47Z")
Whenever I grab a handful of ice out of the freezer, at least one “cube” will end up on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/6 "2004-06-22T01:57:45Z")
Coffee. Always coffee. Just did it this morning, as a matter of fact, all over my hands and everything. Did it this evening too, down the front of me and the lower half of my face. Either I got the dribble cup, as they say, or I got a hole in my lower lip. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/7 "2004-06-22T03:32:18Z")
COFFEE oh man, I have some kind of curse that causes me to spill coffee into my lap. Nearly every time I drink coffee I’d somehow get some spilled on my lap. Sometimes its just out of bad luck and not imcompitence/lack of coordination. You see, one time I had a cup of coffee in my hand, and a waitress bumped my elbow rather hard, which jerked my arm and caused me to dump the whole cup of coffee into my lap :eek: From now on I can only drink coffee out of a sippy cup 😛 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/8 "2004-06-22T04:07:38Z")
I spill anything and everything when wearing white. Since I stopped wearing anything white I seem to have become much more capable of finding my mouth without wearing the food. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/9 "2004-06-22T04:10:05Z")
My wine. Never fails, I always spill at least a little. It’s just a question of when. I’m getting rather surly about the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/10 "2004-06-22T04:28:02Z")
Soda. I always manage to tip over the can. Always. This can make a very sticky situation. Otherwise, I am very graceful with my foods and beverages. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/11 "2004-06-22T04:29:16Z")
My dad says that if you spill food on yourself, it had better be good food. Personally, I always go for pasta sauce. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/12 "2004-06-22T04:35:26Z")
Water. Of course, this may be because I don’t drink much besides water, so if I’m going to spill anything, it’s likely to be water. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/13 "2004-06-22T05:41:19Z")
Whatever’s in my sippy cup, if I dare to try to use it in a moving vehicle. It’s like this; I have an adult size sippy cup, a rubbermaid sports bottle that has a flip up straw. It’s great except when I have the effrontery to attempt to drink from it in a car. I don’t know why, but I flip up the straw and wait a couple of seconds to see if it’s going to spout iced tea. All is calm, so I go to take a sip and then blam! tea everywhere, again, dammit. I wasn’t squeezing it, no change in temperature, altitude, nothing. So now I just drive thirsty, take that sippy cup! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/14 "2004-06-22T05:46:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Would you believe that a friend of my mom’s just told us today about the storing-it-upside-down trick? We’d never heard of it before. The burp it makes is a little unsettling, though, isn’t it? Like your breakfast just farted at you. I just wanted to say that I just got some more cottage cheese on me, _and_ that a peach slice I was trying to put in it slithered away from me and onto the floor. I blame this thread. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/15 "2004-06-22T05:47:09Z")
> [@Mirror Image egamI rorriM](#): > > My dad says that if you spill food on yourself, it had better be good food. > > Personally, I always go for pasta sauce. That’s another item that seems drawn to me as if my blouses were full of magnets. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/16 "2004-06-22T05:59:35Z")
Ice cream-usually chocolate ice cream. And oddly enough, it’s usually when I have something on that’s white, or pastel. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/17 "2004-06-22T06:03:57Z")
Coffee. No matter what design of travel mug I use, I get at least one drop drooling onto me. My seed. C’mon, someone had to say it! ---
**Author:** ![LadyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/18 "2004-06-22T06:29:23Z")
A taco. I am totally incapable of eating one without it falling to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/19 "2004-06-22T06:41:08Z")
Ice water (which is pretty much all I drink, along with beer). Since I spill my beverage at least 5-6 times a week, the whole “evaporation” thing was a major perk of switching to water. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528/20 "2004-06-22T06:52:53Z")
Everytime I try to fill the ice trays at home, I end up pouring water all over myself and the floor as I transfer the tray from the sink to the freezer. I just don’t pay attention to the position of my hands, and it just runs all over one courner. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-always-spill/251528.md?page=2)